P. LOOPUYT &AMP; CO. DISTILLERS SCHIEDAM

P. Loopuyt & Co was established in 2013 by Jaco van der Leun who started distilling their Loopuyt 1772 Dry Gin—named in honor of the founding of that first distillery in the tiny Dutch town with the odd name.

Loopuyt sounds like a fictional island from Gulliver’s Travels, but it turns out that this is a real place. Loopuyt was a town in Holland, and there was an actual distillery named Loopuyt founded there in 1772. The town changed its name, and the old distillery was closed long ago.